Fallen

Eggbox

15" x 23"charcoal drawing

The last few eggshells and the empty plastic egg box make a dramatic end to lunch

Dippy Eggs and Soldiers

16" x 12"charcoal and pastel

There is something elegantly simple about a soft boiled egg for lunch. It doesn’t take a bunch of elaborate preparation; it’s a quick shot of protein to sustain that “big push” through the afternoon slump, but most of all it stirs a childlike joy in being allowed to play with my food

Empty

Busted

Happy Meal

Making An Effort

16" x 12"charcoal and pastel

Carbon Footprints

This is my carbon footprint. What does it tell you about me?What will yours say about you?These are the things that will show them how we lived.

The left-overs from my life cataloged and documented in larger than life charcoal still life drawings. From the dusty darkness a strange self-portrait emerges – broken glass, empty boxes, discarded plastic.We are what we eat? To the archaeologist, we are what we throw away afterwards.

Finding each new piece of trash was like unearthing treasures, conserving, preserving and consecrating my ephemeral (and not so ephemeral) daily detritus. Paying attention to the discarded; things useless and broken; things previous never really seen or looked at or even thought about. Discarded without a thought.

As I stroke the soft charcoal across the paper, enveloping the artifact, the image forms where the charcoal isn’t.A footprint in the dust. Fragments of faded pastel, like a hand-colored photograph, speak of times past.